From: Duy Nguyen Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 11:18:56 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] read-cache: increase write buffer size Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1458350341-12276-1-git-send-email-dturner@twopensource.com> On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 8:19 AM, David Turner wrote: > Each write() has syscall overhead, and writing a large index entails > many such calls. A larger write buffer reduces the overhead, > leading to increased performance. > > On my repo, which has an index size of 30m, this saves about 10ms of > time writing the index. I wonder if split-index does not work as intended. Because if it does, you should rarely need to write that such big index files (or is this 30mb the small part and the base index is even bigger?). But I agree with Torsten that we should make this configurable, preferably via config file, if not we can still move this define back in Makefile, overridable using config.mak -- Duy